Looking for good colleges (with some merit) for Math/CS major

Case Western in Cleveland

Cooper Union’s “STEM” is mainly the E; subjects like math exist mainly to support engineering majors. Offerings of more advanced math courses are limited: https://cooper.edu/engineering/class-schedule

Is that $35k annual budget with loan included or not? I can give info on a few schools that my D1 applied and received merit scholarship offers several years ago.

  1. As someone pointed out, Purdue does have almost 1000 trustees and presidential scholarships. Just make sure you apply EA. It can go up to $16k per year from these. However, they have additional scholarships that may bring the cost down further. My D got $20k/yr from them from OOS. However, an ACT score of ~35 is likely needed (although still not guaranteed). http://admissions.purdue.edu/costsandfinaid/freshman.php
  2. UMN-TC does offer very generous scholarships to OOS students too. If your kid is NMF, they may (not automatic or guaranteed though) offer you a large scholarship (actually 2 or 3 together) to cover more than 50% of their <$35k CoA.
  3. UMich also has hundreds of large scholarships in LSA and CoE. Your kid will be applying to LSA for Math Major and the most common large scholarship is $10k-$20k per year for OOS students. However, it is very competitive as you need to be the top 2-3% of admitted students to receive it. Nevertheless, it is still likely over your budget even with a $20k scholarship as the CoA is near $60k. They do offer ~15 full ride though.

Indiana might be worth a look. A colleague visited recently and got to see their two supercomputers. He said it was “CrayCray”